# Sort After Specifying Fields in QueryStringQuery **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 3, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-after-specifying-fields-in-querystringquery/4545 "2011-06-03T19:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@davrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davrob)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-after-specifying-fields-in-querystringquery/4545/1 "2011-06-03T19:43:20Z")
Hi, Using QueryStringQuery, if I searched on "\_all:smith\*" and did a sort- by-name, without specifying fields to sort on using QueryStringQuery.field() , the sort would span across all 2000 results returned, paged in four 500 row pages. The pages were sorted correctly - The first page: A to G second: G to P third: P to W fourth: everything else Now that I search on "smith\*" and then specify 4 fields using QueryStringQuery.field() and one boosted field, I find that I get 4 pages each sorted A-to-Z. So the first page starts with A and ends in Z, the second page starts with A and ends in Z, and the third. Best Regards, David . ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-after-specifying-fields-in-querystringquery/4545/2 "2011-06-03T22:17:59Z")
Gist a curl recreation, will have a look. [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help). On Friday, June 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, davrob2 wrote: > Hi, > > Using QueryStringQuery, if I searched on "\_all:smith\*" and did a sort- > by-name, without specifying fields to sort on using > QueryStringQuery.field() , the sort would span across all 2000 results > returned, paged in four 500 row pages. The pages were sorted correctly > > - The first page: A to G second: G to P third: P to W fourth: > everything else > > Now that I search on "smith\*" and then specify 4 fields using > QueryStringQuery.field() and one boosted field, I find that I get 4 > pages each sorted A-to-Z. So the first page starts with A and ends in > Z, the second page starts with A and ends in Z, and the third. > > Best Regards, > > David > > . ---
**Author:** ![davrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@davrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davrob)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-after-specifying-fields-in-querystringquery/4545/3 "2011-06-04T19:59:03Z")
Apologies, this was a client side issue. Server-side sorting flag had been turned off in the client. On Jun 3, 11:17 pm, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > Gist a curl recreation, will have a look.[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help). > > On Friday, June 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, davrob2 wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Using QueryStringQuery, if I searched on "\_all:smith\*" and did a sort- > > by-name, without specifying fields to sort on using > > QueryStringQuery.field() , the sort would span across all 2000 results > > returned, paged in four 500 row pages. The pages were sorted correctly > > > > - The first page: A to G second: G to P third: P to W fourth: > > everything else > > > Now that I search on "smith\*" and then specify 4 fields using > > QueryStringQuery.field() and one boosted field, I find that I get 4 > > pages each sorted A-to-Z. So the first page starts with A and ends in > > Z, the second page starts with A and ends in Z, and the third. > > > Best Regards, > > > David > > > . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-after-specifying-fields-in-querystringquery/4545/4 "2017-07-06T04:04:33Z")